The Essential Pope Benedict XVI: His Central Writings and by John F. Thornton, Susan B. Varenne

By John F. Thornton, Susan B. Varenne

On April 24, 2005, Cardinal Joseph Alois Ratzinger turned Pope Benedict XVI, the twenty-first-century successor of the Apostle Peter and the religious chief of multiple billion Roman Catholics. who's this advanced guy whose place of work can provide him sole cost of the world's biggest faith? How will his tenure effect the long run? the fundamental Pope Benedict XVI solutions those questions via rigorously selected decisions from his homilies, interviews, theological essays, and articles at the crises dealing with the church this day. This assortment lays out Benedict's considering and relates it to a number of modern matters, together with smooth culture's abandonment of conventional spiritual values, social mores concerning notion and the sanctity of existence, present demanding situations to the priesthood, and the Catholic Church's tenuous kinfolk with different global religions. First an excellent peritus, or "expert advisor," to the second one Vatican Council after which archbishop of Munich, Joseph Ratzinger used to be appointed head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the religion by way of Pope John Paul II in 1981. As Cardinal Ratzinger, the ex officio defender of church doctrine, he received a name as a heroic parent of the religion for conservatives and used to be held in suspicion through church liberals. we can't but be aware of what concerns and occasions will outline the reign of Pope Benedict XVI, yet via any degree he'll be noticeable as the most very important theological voices of our time. This one quantity is the simplest resource for figuring out the guts, soul, and schedule of this twenty-first-century successor to St. Peter.

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The problem of moral values is back on the table today, and it is an item of great urgency. Faith in the Logos, the Word that is in the beginning, understands moral values as responsibility, as a response to the Word, and thus gives them their intelligibility as well as their essential orientation. Connected with this also is the task of searching for a common understanding of responsibility, together with all honest, rational inquiry and with the great religious traditions. In this endeavor there is not only the intrinsic proximity of the three great monotheistic religions, but also significant lines of convergence with the other strand of Asian religiosity we encounter in Confucianism and Taoism.

He is ordained to the episcopal order xxxviii c h ronol o g y on May 28 and takes as his motto “Co-worker of the Truth,” from 3 John 8. On June 27 he is elevated to cardinal with the titular church of St. Mary of Consolation. During his years as professor of theology, Ratzinger publishes a number of books (on eschatalogy, principles of theology, reason and revelation, tradition and revelation), but his new responsibilities interfere with his theological work. 1980 Pope John Paul II (1920–2005) names Ratzinger to chair the Synod on the Laity, then to head the Congregation for Catholic Education.

Outlining the centrality of care for the poor and the outcast in scripture and down through the history of the church, the pope calls for an integration of charitable activity and social work of the church into the fundamental mission of the church. This would serve to bring all peoples to the knowledge of God who is love, who created and redeemed us out of love, and thus set the standard for all moral and political activity: respect for the dignity of the other and service to his or her needs.

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